James Jones: A Friendship - Brossura

Morris, Willie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0252068378 ISBN 13: 9780252068379

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Willie Morris gives us a finely tuned, funny, and heartrending elegy to his friend, James Jones, whose novels From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line immortalized the experiences of a whole generation of World War II victims and survivors.
Morris, a former editor of Harper's and a prolific author in his own right, sketches the pivotal events of Jones's life as well as small but defining moments of intimacy and compassion. Interweaving recollections by Jones's colleagues, such as Irwin Shaw and William Styron, and his editors, Maxwell Perkins and Burroughs Mitchell, Morris spins out Jones's experiences in the wartime Pacific, his storybook marriage, his self-imposed exile in Paris, and his return to East Hampton, Long Island. He also recounts Jones's race against the clock to finish Whistle, the culmination of his World War II trilogy, which Morris himself completed after his friend's death in 1977.

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Book by Morris Willie

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• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0252068378
• ISBN 13: 9780252068379
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 259